Recent content by Davecww1

I recently finished the Eduard kit, and added the Brassin sets for engine, cockpit and gun bays. Painted in markings for WE Rawie, VF-6 as flown on 1 February 1942. He scored the first victory of WW2 by a Navy fighter pilot over Japanese aircraft on a raid over the Marshall Islands. I...

1/48 Mitsubishi zuisei engine for A6M1 prototype. Used Vector resin engine and cut off rocker covers so it will fit in the Hasegawa cowling. Added .010 styrene push rods, will need to add spark plug wires to finish it up. Dave

Here's the Eduard Brassin cockpit for their 1/48 F4F-3 Wildcat. Out of the box so far. Dave

Currently working on Eduard 1/48 F6F-5 kit. Using a bunch of resin aftermarket and some 3d printed parts such as landing gear and rocket stubs. Folded wings from Wolfpack, cowling from Vector, and cockpit from Aries. Added bulkhead and tanks behind the seat from the Hobbyboss kit, which...

Correct, I think the panel in the center with all of the small switches was to drop the small bombs.

Those are amazing! Now to figure out a way to scratch build all of that detail for a 1/48 kit! Looks nothing like the F4U-1 cockpit other than the foot pedals!

Does anyone know of a drawing of the XF4U-1 cockpit? Especially interested in the instrument panel and side consoles, I have found a photo of the left side console but no straight on photo of the instrument panels and the console in the center with all the switches seen in the photo. It looks...

Was Neutral gray, not light gray. The Navy aircraft like the F4F Wildcat shown in one of the photos above had a light gray bottom, the neutral gray used on the B-25B with dark olive drab 41 in 1942 was a darker gray color.

No way to know for sure, but probably not. He was the proponent for getting the Thunderbolts for his 348th fighter Group, and had a strong rivalry with the P-38 pilots, supposedly he even faced off with Bong in a mock dogfight, which neither really won. Kearby's Thunderbolts by John C Stanaway...

Kearby flew the P-47D but never the P-38.

Looking for photo of Windy City Kitty showing numbers on tail, and possibly better photo of nose art. Was flown by James Currin in 1943 in New Guinea. All I have is this blurry photo from his biography, and he does not describe the serial number or squadron number, but since he is in 341st...

I know the 348th Fighter Group in New Guinea used the metal tanks locally manufactured in Australia known as Brisbane tanks. Google that and you will find photos showing them, they are not similar to the P-38 Lightning tanks used by the 475th. Dave

Almost finished with Eduard's new P-51B kit, excellent fit overall and looks nice when done. New Bullseye Model Aviation decals for Bud Anderson's Old Crow in D Day markings. Still need to add drop tanks and figure out the fuel and pressure lines.

Cockpit ready to assemble the fuselage now. I added the tracks for the Malcom hood before assembling fuselage halves so I could make sure it all fit correctly.

Nice fit for cockpit side walls. There's a gap at the top but I think that's for the tracks for the Malcom hood since they have separate sidewalls for the early canopy and the Malcom hood.